Lifetime from the time most can pay for it is about 70 years at most. 70 x $95.88=$6711.60 for lifetime. Given that Chess.com gives discounts for longer periods I would say $5000 is a reasonable price.

But more important is that longer subscriptions than 1 year are needed-chessgames.com gives out 2- and 3- year subscriptions.

Lifetime from the time most can pay for it is about 70 years at most. 70 x $95.88=$6711.60 for lifetime. Given that Chess.com gives discounts for longer periods I would say $5000 is a reasonable price.

But more important is that longer subscriptions than 1 year are needed-chessgames.com gives out 2- and 3- year subscriptions.

Nobody is going to pay 5,000 for a life time membership. Nobody is going to be on this site for fifty years.

Lifetime from the time most can pay for it is about 70 years at most. 70 x $95.88=$6711.60 for lifetime. Given that Chess.com gives discounts for longer periods I would say $5000 is a reasonable price.

But more important is that longer subscriptions than 1 year are needed-chessgames.com gives out 2- and 3- year subscriptions.

Nobody is going to pay 5,000 for a life time membership. Nobody is going to be on this site for fifty years.

Lifetime from the time most can pay for it is about 70 years at most. 70 x $95.88=$6711.60 for lifetime. Given that Chess.com gives discounts for longer periods I would say $5000 is a reasonable price.

But more important is that longer subscriptions than 1 year are needed-chessgames.com gives out 2- and 3- year subscriptions.

Nobody is going to pay 5,000 for a life time membership. Nobody is going to be on this site for fifty years.

Another reason why Chess.com doesn't sell these.

( @Beester:Please take that down!)

No club or organanization bases their cost of a life time membership on what the next 50 years of an annual membership would cost. The next FEW years yes, but NEVER anywhere near fifty.

But that's an alumni association, which is pretty much a known entity. Nobody can realistically predict what chess.com (or competing sites) will be like in 10 years, except they will probably be different from now. I think this option would have limited appeal.

Just seems like a nice way to generate some income for the holiday season...Say limit it to like 200 slots, and make it some requirement that you have to have been a member for at least a year already.